The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil SandsChris Turner
Simon and Schuster Canada

The BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction will announce its shortlist on December 1, 2017 and the award will be presented in Vancouver in early 2018.

The jury for the 2018 Award comprises:
Jan Walter, Jury Chair, editor, publishing executive, bookseller and former Chair of the Kingston WritersFest Board.
Rick Antonson, author, book publisher, lecturer and former CEO of Tourism Vancouver.
Eliza Reid, co-founder of Iceland Writers' Retreat, writer, editor and currently the First Lady of Iceland.

"This year's longlist proves once again that Canadian writers of non-fiction, and their books, are alive and well,” said BC Achievement Foundation Chair, Scott McIntyre. "To misquote Mark Twain: the rumours of the death of real books are greatly exaggerated. This is a sterling longlist: congratulations to all the writers, and thanks to our distinguished jury."

Previous winners of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction include:
• Sandra Martin for A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices (2017)
• Rosemary Sullivan for Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016)
• Karyn L. Freedman for One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery (2015)
• Thomas King for The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (2014)
• Modris Eksteins for Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age (2013)
• Charlotte Gill for Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with The Tree-Planting Tribe (2012)
• John Vaillant for The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (2011)
• Ian Brown for The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son (2010)
• Russell Wangersky for Burning Down the House (2009)
• Lorna Goodison for From Harvey River: A Memory of My Mother and Her People (2008)
• Noah Richler for This Is My Country, What's Yours? (2007)
• Rebecca Godfrey for Under the Bridge (2006)
• Patrick Lane for There Is a Season (2005)

The BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction is presented by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation, an independent foundation established and endowed by the Province of British Columbia in 2003 to celebrate excellence in the arts, humanities, enterprise and community service. This is the 14th year the award will be presented.

For more information on BC's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and on submission guidelines, please visit www.bcachievement.com